using .split ( )?

[Thekid]

Hi,

Is there a way for me to use .split without having to constantly change my code to adapt to a string? Here's a sample:

 
s =input("Enter string:")
#say string entered is: "2/3/4/5/6"
x=s.split("/")
print x
 
 

That works fine but how can I get it to handle any string that is entered if on the next run it looks like one of these:

"2#3#4#5#6"
or
"45%65%74%2%9%"
etc.....

[oler1s]

There's a couple of ways. The first is to have the user specify what the delimiting value is. This is the most straightforward, and probably the best way. The second is to take a guess, by manipulating the string yourself, and seeing what the pattern might look like.

[bvdet]

You can use the re module. Try this:

import re
 
s = '1/2/3/4/5'
s1 = '1#2#3#4#5'
s2 = '1^2^3^4^5'
 
patt = '[/^#]'
 
print re.split(patt, s)
print re.split(patt, s1)
print re.split(patt, s2)

[Thekid]

You can use the re module. Try this:

import re
 
s = '1/2/3/4/5'
s1 = '1#2#3#4#5'
s2 = '1^2^3^4^5'
 
patt = '[/^#]'
 
print re.split(patt, s)
print re.split(patt, s1)
print re.split(patt, s2)

Oler1s, thank you for your reply but this is more of what I was looking for:

 
import re
 
patt = '[/&$^]'
s = input("Enter string:")
print re.split(patt,s)
 
 

Works good like that! Thanks Bvdet!